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Saberus9: Heya, I'm here with another Au story it's kinda like a X-men style universe, by I mean that playing fields have now been leveled out no god-like powers.
Here are the "good" heroes, the antihero and some villans along with their respective powers and identities (heroes and Jinx).
Heros(Titans):
Nightwing (Richard "Dick" Grey Wayne) – trained as martial artist and master of hidden weapons
Red X (Jason "Jay" Todd Wayne) – Not as good as Nightwing at fighting but has a suit with invisibility and intangibility capabilities as well as his famous X's
Robin (Timothy "Tim" Drakeus Wayne) – still in training
Starfire (Kori Anderson) – Metahuman can fly, shoot starbolts, super strength
Cyborg (Victor Stone) – same powers as usual
Raven (Rachael "Rae" Roth) – Metahuman Telekinetic
Malchior (Malcom Drift) – Metahuman Pyrokinetic (not a dragon)
Terra (Tara Markov) – Metahuman Geokinetic
Antihero:
The Beast (Garfield Mark Logan) – Enhanced Human, super strength, acute senses, instinctive reflexes, cellular embedded pain suppressants
Villians:
Jink (Jenny Nova) – Metahuman Telekinetic
Mammoth – Metahuman super strength, minor invulnerability
Gizmo – Metahuman extreme intelligence
Adonis - Enhanced Human, super strength, acute senses, instinctive reflexes , cellular embedded pain suppressants
Alrighty before we start I just want to get some things clear before I start.
The 3 "Robins" are all Waynes, children of Bruce, Jason and Rich are twins and Tim is too young. There also might be a bizarre Star-centric love shape (it ain't a triangle or a square) between the robins (yes little timmy will have a crush on star too)
The characters are all adults except Robin of course.
There is a difference between an enhanced human and a Metahuman. A metahuman is born and an enhanced is made. More on that later
The incident will also be explained
Slade will only make a minor appearance in this story why will soon be apparent.
Malchior and Terra are undecided as to their purpose but Malchior will be Rae-Rae's boyfriend for a while.
Adonis is a major enemy in this
Alright, lets start with the first chapter of Herald of the Hunt
The New Slade
Nightwing was fuming, Red X was bored and Robin was helping. The other titans were just watching. Dick could not help but obsess over this new villain, 'The Beast' as his twin Jay was exploring the other spectrum of emotion, a detachment of caring. Tim was being helpful doing exactly what Dick said just like he had with before their Dad had passed away. Yep the infamous Batman was dead, killed by Slade and the brothers had formed the titans to protect Gotham.
All of this was happening while the others looked on, Starfire for one was pleased that Tim was still too young to patrol because she for one still had nightmares of what she saw three months ago.
It had been the Titans eleventh month of unity; they had fought much crime and had finally found Slade's hideout. Nightwing had been excited so had Red X, they finally had it a chance for vengeance after nearly a year of searching. But what they had seen had caused even Raven, the darkest and most morbid of the Titans, to scream. In fact it had been Raven who had found him.
The Slade they found was definitely dead, he was impaled on his own Bo-staff, the very same that had knocked them down so many times. The man was stripped bare of everything but his mask; he was cut up in many, many ways. His fingers were all removed, as were his toes. He had been castrated and all wounds were sealed with burns. The Bo-staff had been rammed into the ground and up his anus; long dried blood and shit were soaking the bottom of the staff and the surrounding ground. By his body position alone you could tell he had been still alive when impaled.
There were only two clues to the identity of the attacker a stylized B carved into his chest and writing on the wall in blood "The hunt has begun." When the police arrived, the body was taken away and tested. The results came back stating that the body was one month old but was without a doubt Slade Wilson.
After this, Dick searched for any other reference to the symbol and the phrase, there were many references to the phrase but almost none to the symbol. The process had been almost as bad as that Trigon/Scath business regarding Raven's father. The only things Dick found were the name The Beast in a police report concerning the deaths of many victims and references to a secret assassin group killing Metahumans on some site run by some guy calling himself Gar. The name he kept but the website info from this Gar guy he dismissed.
"Wow," said Malchior, snapping Star back to the present, "This guy is like the new Slade or something." With that Cyborg, Raven and Terra cracked up.
"Its like he can't be caught and no-ones even seen him," Dick cried out "He hasn't even made any moves in the past three months." Suddenly the alarm went off.
"TITANS GO!" all but Tim, Jay and Dick ran out. Jay then turned to Dick
"Sorry Bro," he said, "I stole your thunder."
When the Titans arrived at the scene of the crime, only to see that Adonis was back. The strange Meta-hater was one of the hardest villains they had fought. Second only to Slade in the Titan's criminal list, Adonis fought with traps, weapons and cunning. Last time they had fought him, they had broken most of the guy's bones with heavy damage to their own side. The guy just wouldn't stay down and wouldn't stop flirting with Raven either.
Adonis wore a maskless red suit made of some sort of shock absorbing carbon fiber material; he had a belt containing various armaments and typically wielded a retractable sword. At the scene of the crime he stood over the battered and mauled bodies of two furry-type Metahumans, their blood still pooling at his feet.
"Fuck," was all Cyborg said before their assault began. The titan's struck at Adonis, he moved out of the way with incredible speed while hurling a disc as Terra, the Geomancer threw up a stony defense but the dice exploded into a sticky goo trapping her in between her rocks.
Malchior immediately set to work freeing her while Raven watched his back. Adonis lit up when he saw this and made his way towards them slowly. Nightwing and Red X were quickly knocked away; Starfire flew after them to ensure their safety. Cyborg was slashed across the chest, his sonic cannon destroyed after directly hitting the red suited mad man. Raven grew increasingly worried as Adonis continued his advance, her telekinetic attacks just falling off his armor or being cut in two by his sword.
"Hello, MetaBitch," said Adonis grabbing one of her arms, "Did you miss me?" Before she could reply, he smashed her in the face with his sword's hilt.
"of course you did," he snarled. Raven looked over to Malchior for help and found him trapped behind another goo trap helpless.
"Stop," said a familiar heroic voice, as Nightwing closely followed but Red X closed into battle with Adonis.
"Star, free the others." Red X cried. Starfire complied and within moments the others were free. Raven lifted Cyborg to a safer location with the rest of them, most of them to tired or injured to fight.
Red X and Nightwing duked it out with Adonis, blows were traded and not even X's suit gave them an advantage. Suddenly a crushing blow sent X down for the count. Nightwing was now fighting Adonis alone.
Slash, parry, sidestep, throw disc, and deflect. That was the fight, over and over. Non-stop, then Nightwing stumbled, Adonis was quick to move tripping up the hero. As Nightwing lay on the ground incapable of motion Adonis raised his sword for a killing blow.
"Die, you Meta-loving cunt" Adonis screamed, as the Titans watched the sword decend in horror.
CLANG!
The red sword was deflected by a strange black halberd. Adonis grunted as he was thrown back. Then he looked up at this new defender and visibly paled.
"NO! nononononononono," said Adonis "you're dead, I saw you die"
The warrior standing over Nightwing wore black armor, near featureless black armor, it looked like Red X's but without a cape or any other real features, the helmet was a solid plate, there were spikes on the suit's shoulders and the gloves were tipped with claws. Adonis then did something no Titan had seen him do, he ran, he ran fast.
"Here," said the black armored man, offering Nightwing a hand as the halberd retracted in the other "let me help you up."
The other titans gathered to their leader after watching the fight eager to learn the identity of this new person.
"Cool moves man, you should join the titans" said Cy and Terra noddingly agreed. The man in black merely looked at Nightwing after giving the rest of the team an appraising glance.
"You fight well," he said "but I discourage you from fighting Adonis again, he is far too dangerous for you." Nightwing opened his mouth in protest but the man silenced him.
"You nearly died today," said the man before heading for a dark alley.
"Do I at least get a name?" Nightwing asked, This guy is as intimidating as Bruce was he thought. The figure turned slightly, looking at them with what Nightwing was sure was a smirk beneath that armored mask.
"You can call me, The Beast"
End chapter 1
Saberus9: woah that was kinda intense and the longest chappie I have written so far. This incarnation of Gar will have a very dark past and a lot will be explained soon plus I like the idea of a retractable halberd.
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